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  • After the Tsunami0

    From left to right:The IRLA/Liberty team met with the minister of religion for Myanmar. – Tsunami destruction in Sri Lanka. – Editor Steed and Dr John Graz meet with the woman who directs the Bible Society in Sri Lanka. – Children at an orphanage in Colombo, Sri Lanka, run by a Buddhist monk. Some of

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  • After Liberalism0

    “The end of liberalism is in sight,” writes Patrick J. Deneen, a Notre Dame political scientist, in his widely acclaimed new book, Why Liberalism Failed.”1And this may lead “either to liberalocratic despotism or the rigid and potentially cruel authoritarian regime.” This dire prediction recalls Martin Heidegger’s Der Spiegel 1966 interview, published after his death in

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  • Afghanistan: The Land That Freedom Forgot0

    The sound and smell of motorcycles roaring down a street in Kandahar must have overwhelmed 16-year-old Atifa in the moments before the attack. Before she really knew what was happening, one of the cyclists approached Atifa, her sister Shamsia, and several other girls and threw acid onto their faces. Atifa’s scarf melted into her hair,

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  • Affirming Freedom0

    The Sixth World Congress organized by the International Religious Liberty Association was its first world congress organized in Africa, and the biggest yet, with more than 600 attendees from all over the world. Our two previous congresses (Rio de Janeiro in 1997) and (Manila in 2002) had a little more than 350 participants. This time

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  • Adventures in Christian Authoritarianism0

    Book Review In his recent book, Common Good Constitutionalism (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2022), Harvard University law professor Adrian Vermuele lays out a provocative judicial philosophy. It’s an approach some call “bold” and “thought-provoking” and others simply describe as “dangerous.” Adrian Vermeule, the controversial professor of law at Harvard University, first described his judicial philosophy—common-​good

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  • Adventists, Prohibition, and Political Involvement0

    Just two years after the Seventh-day Adventist Church officially organized, it met for its third General Conference session in 1865. The church made one of its first official statements on voting at that time: &”Resolved, That in our judgment, the act of voting when exercised in behalf of justice, humanity and right, is in itself

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